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Jack Finney

1911 - 1995

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Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney; October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American writer. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Finney has received more than 432,128 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jack Finney is the 4,814th most popular writer (down from 3,924th in 2019), the 7,025th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,347th in 2019) and the 568th most popular American Writer.

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  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jack Finney ranks 4,814 out of 5,755Before him are Jacob van Maerlant, Louise Penny, José Mármol, Charles Williams, Archibald MacLeish, and Mari Jungstedt. After him are Stratis Myrivilis, Rosa Mayreder, J. Bernlef, Henry Lincoln, Semir Osmanagić, and Ernest Lehman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Jack Finney ranks 258Before him are Rudolf Raftl, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Kurt Maetzig, Martim Mércio da Silveira, Zoltán Beke, and Leonard Warren. After him are Jeanette Nolan, Rıfat Ilgaz, Gardner Fox, Paris Pişmiş, Charles Walters, and Shoichi Sakata. Among people deceased in 1995, Jack Finney ranks 222Before him are Henry Roth, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Fabio Casartelli, Nicolás Lindley López, George W. Romney, and Maurinho. After him are Élie Bayol, Warren E. Burger, Emmanuel Roblès, Carlos Lapetra, Julio Caro Baroja, and Osvald Käpp.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Finney ranks 7,025 out of 18,182Before him are Ninja (1991), Susan Anspach (1942), Archibald MacLeish (1892), Darren Star (1961), Zach Galligan (1964), and Stu Ungar (1953). After him are Kevin Alejandro (1976), Julia Faye (1892), K. C. Jones (1932), Ben Bradlee (1921), Fred Alderman (1905), and Morgan Taylor (1903).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Jack Finney ranks 568Before him are John Varley (1947), Robert Greene (1959), Tobias Wolff (1945), Tom Robbins (1932), Walter M. Miller Jr. (1923), and Archibald MacLeish (1892). After him are Ernest Lehman (1915), Robert Lowell (1917), Ernie Pyle (1900), Candace Bushnell (1958), Dee Brown (1908), and John Keel (1930).